Famous Kin of
Alan Taylor

Historian and Pulitzer Prize Author

Click on the names below to see their relationship charts

Exclude: Great Migration Magna Carta Royalty

Henry Cobb

(c1607 - 1678/9)
Great Migration Immigrant 1632

8th great-grandfather

John Jenkins

(c1609 - c1685)
Defence passenger 1635

8th great-grandfather

John Chipman

(c1620 - 1708)
Great Migration Immigrant 1637

8th great-grandfather

John Howland

(c1598 - 1672/3)
Mayflower passenger 1620

9th great-grandfather

Samuel Hinckley

(c1589 - 1662)
Hercules passenger 1635

9th great-grandfather

Ralph Wallen

(c1595 - c1644)
Anne passenger 1623

9th great-grandfather

Bathsheba (Ruggles) Spooner

First woman executed for murder in U.S. by non-British government

2nd cousin 7 times removed
via John Chipman

Horace Gray

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

4th cousin 4 times removed
via Samuel Chipman

Nathaniel Gorham

Signer of the U.S. Constitution

4th cousin 6 times removed
via John Howland

Seth Low

Mayor of New York City
President of Columbia University

5th cousin 3 times removed
via Samuel Chipman

Shubael D. Childs

Founder of S.D. Childs & Company

5th cousin 4 times removed
via Henry Cobb

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Chipman

Lizzie Doten

American Poet

5th cousin 4 times removed
via John Chipman

Jonathan Worth

39th Governor of North Carolina

5th cousin 5 times removed
via John Howland

Maude Adams

Broadway Actress

6th cousin 2 times removed
via Samuel Chipman

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American “Fireside” Poet

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

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Francis Edward Hinckley

Co-Founder, University of Chicago

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Samuel Hinckley

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Mormon Church

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Levi Parsons Morton

22nd U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

James Youngs Smith

29th Governor of Rhode Island

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Henry Huttleston Rogers

Oil Tycoon

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Henry Hastings Sibley

1st Governor of Minnesota

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Jane G. Austin

Author

6th cousin 4 times removed
via John Howland

Hannibal Hamlin

15th U.S. Vice-President

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Howland

Joseph Wharton

Founder of the Wharton School of Business

6th cousin 5 times removed
via Henry Howland

Cecil B. DeMille

American Film Director

7th cousin 1 time removed
via Samuel Chipman

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Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

7th cousin 2 times removed
via John Jenkins

William Robbins Barnes

Co-Founder of Barnes & Noble

7th cousin 2 times removed
via Henry Cobb

J.P. Morgan, Jr.

American Banker and Philanthropist

7th cousin 3 times removed
via Samuel Hinckley

Alan Taylor photo by Alan Taylor (CC BY-SA 4.0)